California · Nonprofit
HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC
HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,561 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($153,486). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $282k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $320k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Heartstrings Counseling Inc does
Mission
To provide high quality, affordable counseling and educational services toall members of the community. We strive to encourage positive change andpersonal growth that will brace and sustain the hearts and livesof individuals, couples, families, teens and children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The purpose of heartstrings counseling is to provide high quality,affordable counseling and educational services to all members of thecommunity. We strive to encourage positive change and personal growth thatwill brace and sustain the hearts and lives of individuals, couples,families, teens and children.
$237,179 spent85% of program spendingIn order to become a licensed marriage and family therapist in the state ofcalifornia, therapists are required to gain 3,000 hours of training andexperience. Here at heartstrings counseling, we value their education andsupport their journey to licensure. Heartstrings counseling is a trainingfacility that provides our counselors with a wonderful atmophere to gainthe experience needed to become licensed. Each therapist is under thedirect supervision of a licensed marriage family therapist and they meetweekly for group and individual supervision.
$37,885 spent14% of program spendingHeartstrings counseling provides disater/crisis counseling services tofirst responders and survivors of fires and mass shootings as well as otherdisasters.
$2,927 spent1% of program spendingTo provide high quality, affordable counseling and educational services toall members of the community. We strive to encourage positive change andpersonal growth that will brace and sustain the hearts and livesof individuals, couples, families, teens and children.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $277,991.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $146k to $111k (−24%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 21% · 2020 5% · 2021 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Darla Gale
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $210k → $3k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 43% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
75% of HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $81k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC has grown faster than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC?
- HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,561 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($153,486). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $319,561 in grants to HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC?
- NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $153,486 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing